Course Description
If you want to advance your career, this is the intensive one-day seminar for you!
Your future is at stake. Are you ready to take
the next step in career advancement?
In today’s cutthroat world, organizations are looking for more than technical expertise and in-depth
job knowledge. They’re looking for leaders. Individuals who demonstrate a deep
understanding of people. Risk-takers with an eye for opportunity and the ability to take
advantage of innovations. People who are striving for greatness — and working hard to achieve
their goals.
You need to master today’s top leadership skills if you want to succeed!
Believe it or not, great leaders aren’t born — they create themselves by
working on their personal and professional skills. And we’re here to help!
Absolutely nothing will better prepare you for career advancement than
Preparing for the Next Level of Leadership. When you attend this intensive
one-day seminar, you’ll learn the latest in leadership trends — real-world
knowledge you can begin applying immediately.
- You’ll discover the most common issues that leaders are facing today
— and how to handle them.
- You’ll learn new techniques for engaging with people, processes, and
policies.
- You’ll learn how to manage risk — and strategies for making risk-taking
pay off … even when it doesn’t work.
- You’ll learn how to build a strong network — both internally and
externally.
- You’ll become a more effective, more powerful leader — with the skills
to truly shine in your organization.
These practical, professional tools will have a tremendous
impact on your career!
Plus, you’ll be building your professional network while you learn — meeting
other career-focused movers and shakers. This is a day of professional
development you absolutely can’t afford to miss! Attend Preparing for the
Next Level of Leadership — enroll today!
Agenda
1. Common Issues Leaders Are Facing
Today
- Managing with limited resources: Use your
leadership strengths to get the most out of your
team
- Address ingrained mind-sets and entrenched
habits to effect change in your organization
- iCommunicate: Are you meeting your employees,
clients, and coworkers where they live?
- Decision-making case studies: Learn from others
how to evaluate your options, make the right
choice, and admit when you’ve made a mistake
- Everyone’s looking for meaning in their work:
Show your team the impact and value of their
actions
2. Building Trust in Today's Leaders
- Everything you do is public: What behaviors and
attitudes do you want to model for your team?
- The transparent leader: when, how, and why to
share knowledge
- How to influence behavior in an ethical way
- Leading through uncertainty: how your candor
and credibility will instill confidence in others
- Do the right thing the first time, and how to teach
others the difference between right and wrong
3. Future Thinking
- Put on the executive hat and learn how to think
like a CEO
- 5 steps to becoming a strategic thinker
- Doing more with less: how to prioritize your time,
effort, and resources
- Managing risk for greater rewards
- Are you prepared for all eventualities?
Contingency planning today for tomorrows’ crises
4. Developing and Managing Your Team
- 4 proven tips for maximizing your talent
- When your people need a boost: mentoring and
coaching strategies that work
- A manager’s best tool both to save time and to
develop employees: delegation
- Fresh ways to motivate and engage your workers
- Secrets to making your team smarter, stronger,
and more successful
5. Problem People, Processes, and
Policies
- Avoid management pitfalls that put you in a pickle
- Dealing with difficult people
- Discover how your employees’ silence could be
the #1 project killer
- Managing work vs. managing people: Is it the
process or the people who are affecting
performance?
- Keys to evaluating, understanding, and
communicating policies
- Do you lead by values or rules? How to know the
difference
6. Moving to the Next Level: How to
Set Your Career Path for Advancement
- Navigate the ins and outs of office politics
- Interdepartmental cooperation is no longer a
nicety; it’s a necessity. Build bridges to build
success
- Cast your influence far and wide: how to build
strong networks inside and outside the
organization
- Time vs. Energy: Make the most of every minute
you have by adding more energy to your day
- 7 ways to make yourself indispensable
- Create an action plan to map out your success
Comments
Cancelation Policy: If you cannot attend an event, you may send someone else in your place. If that isn’t an option for you, cancellations received up to five working days before the event are refundable, minus a registration service charge ($10 for one-day events; $25 for multiple-day events). After that, cancellations are subject to the entire seminar fee, which you may apply toward a future seminar. Please note that if you don’t cancel and don’t attend, you are still responsible for payment.